Emeritus Executive Director of the National Staff Development Council, now known as Learning Forward. Dennis’ blog, ”Dennis Sparks on Leading and Learning,” can be found at

“Radical learners” may sometimes feel like outsiders even when they hold important positions withing their schools. Debra Meyerson uses the term “#tempered radicals” to describe such individuals, and it is also the name of a book she wrote based on studies she has done on TRs, as she calls them.